Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Licenţă
Domeniul: Calculatoare şi tehnologia informaţiei
Programul de studii: Ingineria informatiei - in limba engleza
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MMH0002	Typesetting of  Mathematical Documents with LaTeX 	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Status	
5	1+0+1		compulsory	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
BLAGA Paul Aurel	Ph.D.	Assoc.Prof.	Geometry	*			

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
At the end of the course, the student should be able to typeset complex documents, including: mathematical formulae, drawings, diagrams, tabular material, algorithms but, also, the corresponding reference tools (index, glossary, bibliography).	

IV. Course contents
 1. Basic notions
 2. Typesetting text
 3. Typesetting math I. (elementary approach)
 4. Typesetting math II. (display equations, labels, AMS-LaTeX)
 5. Tabular material in LaTeX (including the specific packages)
 6. Graphics in LaTeX: the graphicx bundle
 7. Commutative diagrams: the amscd and XY-Pic packages
 8. Programming in LaTeX
 9. Indices and bibliographies: the Makeindex and BibTeX programs
10. LaTeX and pdf: the hyperref package
11. Creating overheads with LaTeX: the beamer package	

V. Bibliography
1. Paul A. Blaga, Horia F. Pop - Introducere în LaTeX2e, Editura Tehnică, Bucureşti, 2000
2. George Gratzer - More Math into LaTeX, Springer, 2007
3. Leslie Lamport - LaTeX (ediţia a doua), Addison-Wesley, 1995

	

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks

VII. Didactic methods used

VIII. Assessment
There will be several laboratories and homeworks (no final exam!)	

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Assoc.Prof. BLAGA Paul Aurel, Ph.D.